Lunar Rover Found on Moon After 37 Years

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Seek ye, the rover of kings: Scientists have spotted Lunokhod 2, a Russian space vehicle that landed on the moon in 1973 and stopped working that same year, after a 37-year period where no one knew where the thing was, NPR reports.

What makes Lunokhod 2 even more interesting is that it belongs to Richard Garriott, of Ultima and Origin Systems fame. Garriott purchased the rover at a 1993 Sotheby’s auction for $68,500, making him the world’s only private owner of an object on a celestial body aside from Earth.

Garriott said in the report that he’s thrilled to finally have photos of his “private flag sitting on the moon.”

“My rover has traveled over 40 kilometers. It has tilled the soil or turned the soil with its wheels and it has surveyed land as far as the eye can see — or as far as its cameras can see,” he said.